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Desktop Linux Showdown

Desktop Linux Showdown

OpenSUSEs configuration tools are broken out into perhaps too many separate pieces.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Control Center Search

Theres a search box to help cut through the control panel maze, but it doesnt always deliver. To find font configuration tools, I should have been searching for appearance.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Beagle Desktop Search

OpenSUSE relies on Beagle for desktop search.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Bluetooth via Beagle

I wanted to check out OpenSUSEs Bluetooth functionality, and Beagle led me to the spot.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Bluetooth on Fedora

I was able to transfer files between my Treo and my Fedora 8-based test notebook, but I could not get the two talking via Fedoras new Phone Manager application.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Ubuntu\s Desktop Search

Ubuntu turns to Tracker for its desktop search needs.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Kerry Beagle Front End

OpenSUSEs KDE implementation also leans on Beagle for desktop search. I find the KDE Beagle front end, Kerry, more useful than the GNOME-based version.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Evolution Backup and Restore

GNOME 2.20, shown here on Fedora 8, comes with a very useful backup and restore feature for Evolution. Ubuntu 7.10 also includes this option, but the version of Evolution that comes with OpenSUSE, strangely, does not.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Online Desktop Demo

Fedora 8 offers an early look at Red Hats Online Desktop initiative. At this point, the software amounts to little more than a handful of links to online services.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Online Desktop in Action

Fedora 8s online desktop demo connected me, through Firefox, to a set of online services.

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Desktop Linux Showdown - Tomboy Tasks

As implemented in OpenSUSE, the Tomboy note-taking tool (which is one of my favorite applications) offers an integrated task list option that Ubuntu and Fedoras Tomboy implementations lack.